Gabriella Cerritelli has a ten-year study background in theatre and dance (in particular african dance and african-expression dance). 1990 she goes on a study journey to Burkina Faso, organized and conducted by the dancer Irene Tassembedo. In the same year she begins to teach african-expression dance, theatre dance and dance improvisation. 1990 to 1995 she works at various art projects and begins to explore dance improvisation and real-time interaction with music.

In 1995 she debuts at Centro Sociale Leoncavallo (Milan) with a theatre-dance performance in collaboration with Alex Rolle (percussions) and Nicola Piacentino (guitar, audio sampling and programming).

1997 debuts in Cuneo with the performance “Paesaggi possibili” in collaboration with Nicola Piacentino contextually to the event “Verso la citt‡ desiderata”. In the same year she also starts her collaboration with the contrabass-improviser and sound manipulator Domenico Sciajno. Leading idea of their works is the real-time interaction of movement, sound and voice.

In 1998 she is organizer of the event “I(n)terazioni” at Zona Castalia (Turin), where she performs with Christian Alati (guitar, live electronics), Giuseppe Ielasi (guitar), Ruggero Radaele (percussions), Domenico Sciajno (contrabass) and Ellen Christie (voice).
Together with Domenico Sciajno (contrabass, live electronics) she debuts in Turin with the improvisational work “Suoni e forme in movimento” and with the theatre-dance performance “Maiz. Accordi tra maschere e silenzi” together with the actors Francesca Rizzotti and Massimo Giovara.

1999
She debuts in the Turin Central Station’s Winter Garden with the show “No me molestes (suggestioni da Alda Merini)” together with the actress Francesca Rizzotti.

2000
Together with Domenico Sciajno (contrabass, live electronics), she stages "Color giallo", a performance realized on the occasion of the homonymous painting exhibition organized by the gallery Huberte Goote (Zurich) and the association Cultura Insieme (Chiasso). 2001, in collaboration with the percussionist Piergianni Gillio, she starts to work on her project “Interazioni”, an impro performance between dance and music which debuts in Turin at Fabrik and is then repeated for one of the city’s major events, “Identit‡ e differenza”.

2002
In autumnher new show “Vuoto d’amore” (with poems by Alda Merini) debuts at Le Serre di Grugliasco (Turin) contextually to the festival "Una via teatrale" organized by the association Il Mutamento - Zona Castalia. “Vuoto d’amore” is a dance solo performance with vocal interventions, inspired from and drawn upon texts by the poet Alda Merini, with musics by major artists in the international electronic and world music scene. In the same year her “Interazioni” goes on stage on various occasions (Festival “Differenti sensazioni” Cossato, Biella; Murazzi del Po, Turin).

2003
Together with Piergianni Gillio, she presents the performance “D’acqua” for the event “Acqua 2003” organized in Racconigi (Turin). For the “Festival of heterodox music” in Florence she shows her “Superfici sonore”, an impro performance of dance and music together with Domenico Sciajno (live electronics) and Giuseppe Ielasi (guitar, live electronics). “Interazioni”, together with the percussionist Piergianni Gillio, goes on stage in Asti contextually to “Asti teatro 2003”, while “Vuoto d’amore” is presented in Turin at Espace, in the frame of the initiative “La Piattaforma”. For Asti Teatro 2003 she also participates in “Spazi siderali”, a performance by Beppe Varlotta and Monica Costagli with Renato Cravero, Maria Grazia Sodano, Judy Rymer, Creg Peritz and Paola Della Ratta. In the same year she meets Francesco Carbone (official photographer of Pina Bausch’s company Wuppertaler Tanztheater for over 20 years).

2004
She meets Marcel Marceau on the occasion of a workshop held at the Abbey of Spineto. She is invited to perform at the opening of the photo exhibition of Francesco Carbone “Salvator de mi vida” (Testaccio Zoo Bar, Rome) dedicated to the work of Pina Bausch.
On such occasion she presents a reduced version of “Vuoto d’amore” interacting with the photographs on show. “Vuoto d’amore” goes on stage in Pisa (Teatro Lux) and in Turin (Teatro Nuovo) for the international event “Il gesto e l’anima”; on the same occasion a collaboration starts with Gabriele Bramante (former musician, founder of the independent label Wide Records), who cooperates with Gabriella Cerritelli as a musical advisor and live sound manipulator.
Together with the percussionist Piergianni Gillio she is on stage again with the performances “D’acqua” (in Turin, for “Tutti uguali tutti diversi”) and “Interazioni” (in Gallarate, for “Z.A.T.” - 21st Contemporary Art Competition, and at Persano Art Gallery in Turin on the occasion of an exhibition of De Maria’s work). She collaborates with the photographer Mariangela Parmisano posing for her personal exhibit “La luna… e altre storie” on show at Galleria Regard in Rivoli (Turin). As accompaniment to the photo exhibition “Corpus - Perle di Muse Miste” she then enacts a performance together with the musician Laura Culver, the actress Francesca Rizzotti and the photographer Mariangela Palmisano.
In collaboration with the italian-french sculptress Emmanuelle Raynaut and with the Naples-based band of electronic music Retina.it she prepares the performances “Ceci n’est pas une peinture” and “Moyen de transport”, an interaction of dance, sculpture and music.
Together with the sculptor Filippo Armenise and the costumists Elena Gaudio and Roberta Vacchetta she puts on the installation-performance “Many Artist’s”.

2005
Dances and creates the choreography for the project “Wstawac! Il comando dell’alba” (“Wstawac! The Dawn Command”) based on original music by Ennio Morricone, carried out and directed live by the maestro on the occasion of the debut. Direction by Silvano Tombini Robichon, text by Primo Levi with insertions by Par Lagekrvist, Nobel 1951, Pierpaolo Pasolini.

2006
Begins a collaboration with the guitarist Claudio Lodati, debuting with the performance “Gesti sonori” (“Sound Gestures”) for the 2006 Torino Jazz Festival at Hiroshima Mon Amour.
Presents at the Festival “Interferenze” (“Interferences”) of Partenio/Valle Caudina (AV) the performance “Behind the Eyes“ with the electronic music duo Retina.it.
In collaboration with “Torino Danza” (“Dance in Turin”), realizes the project “Behind the Door“, a performance of video and dance, which debuts October 7 at the Astra Theatre in Turin in the ambit of the “11th FOCUS of TORINO DANZA”. Participating: dancer Paolo Data Blin, video-artist Claudio Sinatti, and director Enrica Viola.
On October 12, debuts at the Teatro Piccolo Regio in Turin with the performance “Spazi Inprevedibili” (“Unforeseeable Spaces”) created for EMERGENCY with the images of Mariangela Palmisano and the percussion of Piergianni Gillio and Stefano Soldati.

2007
Repeat performance of “Gesti sonori” (“Sound Gestures”) with guitarist Claudio Lodati
. On May 25, presents at the Circolo dei Lettori (Readers’ Circle) in Turin “M come Memoria del corpo” (“M as in Memory of the Body”), a performance of reading and dance with texts adopted from “L'amore molesto” (“The Annoying Love”) by Elena Ferrante, read by the actress Simona Nasi.
On July 12, participates in the Festival La Piattaforma (the Platform Festival), performing again “Many Artists” at the Cavallerizza Reale (the Royal Riding Academy) in Turin.

2008
On April 9, debuts at the Cavallerizza Reale (the Royal Riding Academy) in Turin, as part of the Progetto Teatri nella Rete, Spazi per la danza contemporanea (Project for Theatres on the Web, Spaces for Contemporary Dance) 2008, “Mara’s Attack”. Project of installation/performance conceived with the sculptor Paolo Grassino and the collaboration of Francesca Persano.
“Behind the door”, revised and brought to completion with the video-artist Nadia Zanellato/vjkizzz, is presented in preview April 12 in the Teatro Revellino in Tuscania, for the circuit of the ETI and debuts April 23 and 24 in Turin c/o Officine CAOS (CAOS Workshop) of Stalker Theatre.

2009
In May, works at a workshop/studio at Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti (Academy of Fine Arts) of Torino. As a result of the workshop, the interplay between dance and video, and the cooperation with Roberto Tarasco (collaborator of Gabriele Vacis and Alessandro Baricco) as co-director of the performance are set up.
On October 9th and 10th the new version of “Mara’s Attack” is performed live at Cavallerizza Reale (the Royal Riding Academy) in Turin, as part of Festival La Piattaforma (the Platform Festival).